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Show Qmr ft ft ' 1 " ttLM fllf 1 Jill lTxxvi " : : - j LEHI, UTAH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1945 NUMBER 30 1 , .;- United States Steel Company Announces Intention to Bid For Geneva San Francisco, California, February Feb-ruary 6, 1945 United States Steel Corporation has advised the Government that it is interested in-terested in discussing a possible basis of purchase or lease of the Government-owned steel plant at Geneva, Utah, for post-war operation, William A. Ross, President Pres-ident of Columbia Steel Company, Com-pany, United States Steel's Pacific Pa-cific Coast subsidiary, announced announc-ed today. Mr. Ross' statement follows: Kecent discussion in the press about the possibilities for the post-war production of steel west of the Rocky Mountains may have led some exponents of the further industrial development develop-ment of the Far West to jump to the conclusion that United States Steel Corporation and its Pacific Coast subsidiary, Columbia Colum-bia Steel Company, have little interest in the future of the new Government-owned steel plant at Geneva, Utah. Any such impression Is quite contray to the truth. This plant in Utah was designed and built for the Government by Columbia! Steel company, acting on behalf of United States Steel Corporation1, Corpora-tion1, ahd is now being operated for account of the Government by another subsidiary of United States Steel, such construction and operation being a war project pro-ject undertaken by the Steel Corptaration without any fee or profit. United States Steel Corporation Corpora-tion is also an exponent for the continujed industrial development develop-ment of the Far West. It recognized recog-nized the importance of Pacific Coast steel markets and their potentialities, when it acquired Columbia Steel Company in 1930. This company then had and now continues to maintain a fully integrated steel operation . west of the Rockies, with coal and iron mines and a blast furnace and by-product coke ovens in Utah, and steel producing and finishing facilities near San Francisco and Los Angeles. During Dur-ing the past few years, Columbia's Colum-bia's steel finishing facilities in California have been substant- Crazy Stuff BY OOOBWIM A robber was holding up passengers on a Pullman car. "Out with your dough, or I'll kill all the- men and molest the woman," he shouted. An elderly man said indignantly: in-dignantly: "You shall not touch the ladies." Just then an old maid in an upper berth yelled out, "You leave him alone HE'S robbing this train." Ask to See STYLE NO. 1043 As Sketched Pacesetter Active on-the-go feet will appreciate this playshoe in black, blue, -and tan gabardine gab-ardine with a flexible vinyl sole that will wear. Non-rationed and only $2.98 Goodwin's Over 18 Years of Service Speaks for Itself tally extended and modernized by the expenditure of large sums of money. Columbia Steel Company has plans for further enlargements and modernization of its facili ties to keep pace with t.h in dustrial growth and development Ui .raiauc uoasi area. Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly the acquisition of the Government's steel mill at Geneva Ge-neva upon some mutually satisfactory satis-factory basis and the installation of any required additional finishing fin-ishing facilities could be made to fit in with this post-war program, pro-gram, without causing the aban donment or curtailment of Co- mmoia's existing modern facilities facili-ties in California. In a recent letter to the Chairman Chair-man of Defense Plant Corporation, Corpora-tion, the Government agency owning the Geneva steel mill, Benjamin F. Fairless, President of United States Steel Corporation, Corpora-tion, stated in part: ! "We also wish to take this opportunity op-portunity to advise you that at such time as either or both of the plants at Fontana and Geneva Ge-neva are no longer needed for present or future war efforts and disposal of the facilities to private interests is under consideration, con-sideration, we would be interested interest-ed in discussing with your rep resentatives a possible basis of purchase or lease of all or a part of such facilities for operation as part of the Columbia Steel Company. "In the event we were able to arrive at a mutually satisfactory satisfac-tory arrangement for either the purchase or lease of all or part of such facilities, we would expect ex-pect to undertake to operate them at as high a rate of capacity ca-pacity as would be warranted by the market for their products in the territory naturally served by their facilities." - . - deferring to the effect of such an acquisition upon the over-all steel-making capacity of United States Steel Corporation, some of which is now less efficient than the new plant at Geneva, Mr. Fairless stated: "We anticipate that such acquisition ac-quisition of these facilities would be accompanied by reductions or displacements in existing capacity capa-city so that our basic steel-making capacity would not be increased in-creased in the post-war period." In view of the recognition both by United States Steel Corporation Corpora-tion and Columbia Steel Company Com-pany of the importance of West Coast markets for steel and these companies' desire for further fur-ther industrial development in the Far West, there should be no misunderstanding about their interested attitude toward taking tak-ing the necessary steps at the proper time to meet the postwar post-war steel needs of these markets. American Heroes .by JULIAN OLLENDORFF- 7?" YV Three Youths From War Area Out Of Action SON OF FORMER LEHI WOMAN MISSING Stanley B. Blackhurst, 20, paratrooper, par-atrooper, has been reported missing miss-ing in action on the Belgium frfnt January 4, it was learned by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum M. Blackhurst. Mrs. Blackhurst is the former Amy Davis of Lehi. She is a sister of A. W. and William Davis of this city. r WOMAN RILLED IN ACTIOS . unnn rorpived by Word nas ween - - -Mrs J. C. Wanlass of the death jviia. a. uToiin Vrancis. nf her nepiiew, . Skilled in action overseas- He was ;the son of Mr .and Mrs. Roy.K Francis of Ogden. Mrs. tTancis f the former Ivy Thomas of h? a Lter of Jto r.' tvr.r snns of the JfTanu , than Mann, :w ul'fnrw, overseas with thearmeorces. irrWETH HARDY IN BELGIUM HOSPITAL Mr and Mrs. H. P. Hardy of missmSAQt S is hi a Belgium stating that be m seyere hospital Mfftnj? i Ger. hile the SS William T. Coleman was moored beside an ammunition vessel, enemy planes set the latter afire. Radio Operator, Oper-ator, James C. Huett, volunteered to sever the lines .that held his ship as bursting bombs and blazing gasoline endangered the Coleman. Quickly he completed the hazardous operation for, which he was awarded the Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal. His ship moved off to a safe distance; the ammunition ship sank. War Bond purchases pay for ships so badly needed to carry on this war. r . ' r U..TttasHryDtpnrtuunt Lions Valentine Ball Next Wednesday The traditional Valentine Ball and banquet of the Lehi Lions club will be held Wednesday evening, eve-ning, February 14. The party is in the form of a zone social, with Lions. from the clubs of Utah county, American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Orem, Provo, Springville, Spanish Fork, and Payson as guests. The evening's activities will commence at 7:30 p. m. with a banquet in the tabernacle, . with Blaine Winters of Salt Lake City as Master of Ceremonies. Following Fol-lowing the. banquet, a dancing party will be held in the high school gymnasium, with Fern Larsen's orchestra furnishing the music. Mr. and Mrs. Wane Christen-sen Christen-sen are general chairman of arrangements, ar-rangements, assisted by the following fol-lowing committees: Invitations, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Prior and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd B.Adamson; Finance, Mr. and Mrs. J. Maiben Stephenson and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cook; Program, Mr. and Mrs. Armond Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Byron J. Whipple and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond T. Bailey; Banquet, Mr. and Mrs. George Strasburg, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lambert and Mr. and Mrs. Grant Christofferson; Decorations, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley M. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Shaw, and Mr. and Mrs. Warren Goates; Dance, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Smuin, Mr. and Mrs. Seth Hansen Han-sen and Mr. and Mrs. Lowell A. Brown; Reception, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Powers, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Morgan S. Lott. Glen Powell Reported; Killed In Action SOLDIER AND WIFE HOME ON FURLOUGH Set. and Mrs. Vernon E. Rad- mall arrived home last week from Florida where they have spent the past two years while Sgt. Radmall was instructor in radar. He will leave next week for a point in Mississippi where he will receive further training. stated in his letter that he will be returning to the States soon. He had been overseas six months, serving with a glider division. Gold and Green Ball Sat. Most Successful Pvt. Glen Schow Powell, 20, was killed in action in France January 16, according to word received by his mother, Mrs Nicholine Powll, on Monday. He had been overseas six weeks. Pvt. Powell was born in Levan July 1, 1924, and moved here with his family ten years ago He graduated from the Lehi high school in 1942. He attended the L. D. S. Business, college in Salt Lake City, and ws employed by the General Motors company of that city for some time before entering the service in June 1943. He trained at Camp Roberts, California, with the artillery, then was sent to the University of Montana to study engineering. In March, 1944 he was transferred trans-ferred to the infantry, and stationed sta-tioned at Camp Adair, Oregon. From there he was sent to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and assigned as-signed overseas late in November, 1944. He arrived in France the early part of December, 1944. . He was an Elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and took an active part in church work. He is survived by his mother, Nicholine Schow Powell, three brothers, Marvin Powell, of Levan, Le-van, Keith Powell of Lehi, and SSgt. Wayne Powell of the U. S. Army Air Corps in Colorado Springs, Colorado; three sisters, Mrs. Ralph (Ilene) Jackman and Mrs. Cecil (Maurine) Stephenson Stephen-son of Levan, and Miss .Donna Mae Powell of Lehi, and a grandmother, grand-mother, Mrs. Esther Powell, of Lehi. His father, the late Thad-deus Thad-deus Powell, died fifteen years ago. FORMER TEACHER IN "Y" PLAY Evan Croft, former Lehi high school teacher, now of the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young University faculty, is included in the cast for the Chinese comedy, i!Yellow Jacket," which will be produced at the university the last part of February. Feb-ruary. Mr. Croft taught typewriting type-writing here before joining the "Y" faculty several years ago. Just Received... Ladies' Blouses, Hosiery, Anklets Sweaters, Slacks, Dresses Men's and Boys' Dress and Work Trousers, Leather and Wool Coats Shoes for the Family Powers Shoe Store MAIN STREET LEHI With the beautifully decorated high school gymnasium as a setting, one of the loveliest Gold and Green Balls ever held here was a highlight of Saturday eve ning. The hall was decorated at either end in white, with tiny silhouettes of skating girls in black and silver carrying out the color scheme of black and white. Following the same color scheme, the queen's entrance and procession provided the climax cli-max of the evening. Preceding the royal couple, tiny Jay II. Had-field, Had-field, bearing the crown of red and white flowers, led the procession, pro-cession, flanked by little Carol Price and Dixie Peck as attend ants. The queen, lovely auburn-hair ed Doris Dickerson Southworth, attended by LaMar Hatchings, followed. The queen wore a white formal with a long black evening cape. The queen's attendants at-tendants and escorts followed, with each girl dressed in white, wearing a corsage of red and white. When the royal procession proces-sion reached the throne, which was decorated in black and white, with a large silver and black skating girl as background, the queen's escort placed the lovely flower crown upon her head. Attendants and escorts were Carol Beck and Vincent Scown, LaRae Whimpey and Ralph Mitchell, Jilene Peterson and Kelsey Chatfield, Norma Larsen and Alvin Schow, Reva Anderson and Yvonne Bollman. Following the entrance of the royal party, a floor show was given. giv-en. An all-girls' waltz from the First ward, directed by Eva Carson, Car-son, was lovely, with the follow ing girls, all dressed in pastel gowns, participating: Lela Rut- ledge, Beverly Powell, Nona Strong, Lela Cowan, Donna Mae Powell, Maurine Beck, Donna Huntsman, and Darlene Wathen. Phyllis Fox accompanied at the piano. A waltz quadrille from the Special Interest department of the Fifth ward, directed by Vera Trane, was next. Couples participating were Mr. and Mrs John Broadbent, Mr. and Mrs. Jean Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Royle, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Goates, Mr. and Mrs. Don South-wick, South-wick, Mr. and Mrs. George In-graf, In-graf, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Trane, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Webb. Music was played by George Eason on the violin, Mrs. Eason on the marimba, and Mrs. George Bone at the piano. Music for dancing was by Howard How-ard Nelson's orchestra. The ball was under the direction direc-tion of stake M. I. A. officers. Decorations were in charge of the First ward presidents, Dorothy Doro-thy Southwick and Wayne Bushman, Bush-man, and the queen's entrance ceremony was in charge of the Third ward presidents, Betty Powell and Horace Hadfield. Patrons were the stake presidency presi-dency and their partners, and bishops from the seven wards and their partners. State Legislature Has Completed Little Legislation After 4 Weeks By William T, Ingleheart SCOUT PROGRAM PRESENTED IN FIFTH WARD Under the direction of their new scoutmaster, Chester Peter son, scouts from Troop 5 presented pre-sented the Sunday evening program pro-gram in the Fifth ward February 4. Glen Trane, chairman of the troop committee, took charge. Following invocation, offered by Senior Scout Don Peterson, colors, were presented by Senior Scouts Ward Glover, Dick Wor-then Wor-then and Ray Southwick. After the pledge of allegiance Mrs. Ray Walker led the congregation in singing "America, the Beautiful", Beauti-ful", with Mrs. Elmer Carr playing play-ing the piano accompaniment. Scoutmaster Peterson gave a talk on the history of scouting, followed by a piano selection by Senior Scout Alvin Schow. Sgt. Elmer Carr of the U. S. Army then spoke on scouting, particularly particul-arly the scout oath. The closing talk was by Bishop E. B. Garrett, who showed the correlation of scouting and Priesthood work. Mrs. Carr played a piano solo, "Star Spangled Banner," after which the colors were retired, and the benediction was offered J by Scout Stanley Gordon. District Dis-trict Scout Commissioner Dell (Asay represented the district ; committee at the exercises. When they quit lawmaking at the end of the fourth week of the twenty-sixth session of the state legislature the members counted their tangible achievements, achieve-ments, in the matter of laws passed and killed at only about ten per cent. Ten per cent that is, of the more than 300 bills and resolutions introduced. But that is a somewhat misleading figure because in reality it takes in the neighborhood of 100 hours in preparation, committee consid eration, lobbying persuasion and plain ordinary horse-trading to one hour of debate on the floor to get a bill passed. And the 100 hours have al ready Been devoted to many pieces of legislation that will have an important and control! ing influence on the way the people of Utah will live and carry on their various affairs for the next four years. For Instance, the joint committee of labor and industry devoted a great deal of time, profitably, in ironing out a compromise on the bill respecting re-specting extension of benefits under the Workmens' Compensation Compensa-tion and the Occupational Disease Di-sease acts. They recommended a boost in minimum compensation compensa-tion from $16 a week to $22.50 a week. W. C. Jensen, (D. Ogden) and his committee have approved approv-ed those recommendations. They will probably be accepted intact this week. Other negotiations and compromises com-promises are ahead for the major controversial measures yet to be presented. Such as elections and voting, post war planning for employment and public con struction, budgeting of the state's income (and there really is a stickler!); taxation (anoth er brutal word in these days); highways, social security affairs and that always diverting and continuing question of deers for the hunters and brouse for the sheep and cattle (or which). There seem to be anywhere from two to twenty schools of thought on any or all of these proposals. Then you've got the liquor commission's commissions or failure of commission (depending (de-pending on the point of view), the department of agricultures desires to extend their domain to everything from the number of cows to bulls on public land, to assumption of control over all soli conservation enterprises. And the gamut of subjects before be-fore the legislature runs on to an unbelievable number. Rep. Selvoy J. Boyer (D. Springville) Spring-ville) took a lot of wind out of the organized labor sails in the house early in the week's proceedings pro-ceedings when he squelched Rep. Frank Bonacci (D. Helper) and his effort to permit public employees em-ployees and agencies to bargain collectively by saying "are we to lose the spoils' system and freeze every public Job in Utah?" The house agreed with the Democratic Democra-tic floor leader. No collective bargaining for the state or other I public employees. A lot of other civil service pro posals are quite apt to meet a similarly conclusive fate. But the county firemen did win a victory their plea for recogni tion was granted. Senator Mitchell Mellch (R. Moab) chalked up a couple of credit marks by his successful sponsorship of the , emergency measure permitting the continued contin-ued employment of women in above-ground mining operations. The aggressive and articulate Republican floor leader in the house, Rep. Clifton G. M. Kerr of Tremonton, abetted forceful speaker W. R. White in cutting off debate that has resulted in the tabling of nine and the recommitting re-committing to committee of a like number of bills. The Senate, the smaller and thus far more deliberate body, was having difficulties in the matter of Governor Herbert B. Maw's recommendations for commission appointments, so far as the record shows, all is "sweet harmony". But, em phatically, the one vote margin by which president Dexter Farr (D. Ogden) won his place hasn't yet been sufficient to get the Democratic caucuses into agreement agree-ment with the chief of state's suggestions. The first major blast at one of the Governor's pet reorgani zation schemes was exploded by Sen. Alonzo Hopkin (D. Wood ruff) who wants to do away entirely en-tirely with the Industrial Development Devel-opment and Publicity commission. commis-sion. Due to resignation and death, Ora Bundy of Ogden is the sole member of that body. Commissioner Bundy apparently got his wires crossed somewhere. With so many bills before them on the same or related subjects both senate and house have re-sarted re-sarted to the appointment of committees to consolidate . and harmonize related measures. The house has thrown all proposed salary increases for state, county and municipal employees Into one committee, the senate has tossed all post war planning proposals pro-posals into another. As the new week opens both houses have full calendars. The senate started off with thirty measures ready for final action and the house with twenty-nine. And brave is the man who will predict what will happen to any of them. TEMPLE EXCURSION TODAY A Lehi stake Priesthood Tem ple excursion is being held today, to-day, and members may attend any session they wish. As a part of the stake Priesthood project, Priesthood members will work on mission names. Wives may tendj but must furnish their own names, as there are no women's names available at the present time. 170 endowments were perform ed during last month's excursion. Anto Upholstery Washable upholstery is expected to be a feature of postwar automobiles. WATCHES Ladies' and Gents' Wrist Watches Gold Fancy Shapes and Waterproof Men's WRIST WATCHES 29.50 and up h I i! 0 1 . Ladies' 9 and 17 Jewel WATCHES from 24.75 and up We have RINGS, LOCKETS, IDENTIFICATION BRACELETS and many other Swell Gifts too numerous to mention. E. N. 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